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Running to me is not something I do but something I am. My teammates are like family; my coaches are friends, and the sport is my life. Running is my safe haven from all the noise in life, but with it, there will always be losing, injury and failure. To run you have to do more than love it, you have to conquer it. It just so happened that my second year of track I experienced more than I knew about myself, with the help of injury. As soon as, the sun was lifting over my hill, I was up and…

Tap tap tap. Click. Tap tap. Click. I was quick. I was focused. I was in the zone. And then…(gasp) I stopped. As I perused through the questions on the Common App about education, testing, and family, I came across a question that stood out to me: Are you the first person in your family to attend college? I am quick with filling out applications, so I was answering each one in a matter of 10 seconds. However, this particular question made me stop. I hesitated for a bit and began to…

Dialectical Journal 1 “She should just forget her. Who knows where she is? Who knows what they’ve done to her?” (Zusak. 96) This quote in the book particularly stood out to me because it raised some mixed emotions within me as well as some more questions. Firstly, it makes me feel sympathetic towards Liesel because a girl her age should not have to go through losing her mother and then overhearing her foster parents saying that “she should just forget her” (Zusak. 96). Before reading this…

“You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird. When I was nine years old my family and I moved from Marshall, Texas to Harleton, Texas. Making this move had a significant impact on my childhood due to the fact that I was taken from the town I had spent the first nine years of my life, I had to leave my friends and family behind, and I was faced with having to adjust to a…

It was the day that the Reaper had died but sixteen years ago, as well as seven teenagers sixtieth birthday. Everyone had felt bad for the due to they had to share their birthday with the horrible nasty Reaper on the day of his death. Today was officially the seven teen’s birthday, Lucas, Alex, Rose, Lilly, Max, Josh and Jason. Their ritual since they were all eleven, was to go down to the creek where there was an old, burnt ambulance truck that had been blown up the day the Reaper died because…

It Was Worth it. I Hope. I really should not have said anything. I mean, my parents raised me with strong morals, I had to talk. I should have just kept my mouth shut. But I can’t just let people, no matter who they are get wrongfully arrested. It is not right. I know I am going to be hated in my new town. How is someone suppose to choose between what is right and what everyone in town want’s to be right. I was the new kid in town, and I was not used to the small town atmosphere. I had lived all…

Our Vacation This essay is about my family’s awesome vacation. We went to Arizona and California. We did a bunch of fun things like Universal Studios, and Griffith Observatory. It was really awesome and i’m going to tell you about it. It was June 5 2015, wich was my birthday. We got out of school and got on an airplane at the Idaho Falls airport. It was my first time on an airplane and it was my birthday so, the pilot let me sit in the cockpit. I videoed the take off on my Ipod and loved the…

Kassandra Denniston The Loser- A Stereotypical Love Story Not many people would know me if you said my name and not very many people would say that I am cute or attractive. I didn’t always be this way. Just a year ago I used to be friends with the cheerleaders and I used to know everyone. When I walked down the hall, even if I wasn’t walking with anyone, everyone would say “hey Sandy”. Now they just stare at me like I am a walking corpse. They now say that I am a nerd or that I am a loser, and…

Stereotyping happens in everyday life. “Nobody has the right to define who you are, stay true to yourself because in the end, ones self opinion is the only thing that matters.” I have personally experienced and witnessed stereotyping, I see it everyday and truthfully, it’s sad. Hopefully, what you can get out of this is a little insight of how much it happens everyday an if you are going through it, then you can get a little advice from someone who has been through it. Stereotyping includes…

A Raisin in the Sun - Prologue Today was the one year anniversary since the younger family had moved into the house. They had hoped for a dream to come true, but it was just the start of a nightmare. The community, which they had tried being nice to, was just shunning them and constantly rejecting and threatening them.The walls had been painted and the furniture had been replaced. However the house felt empty, as the occupants were rarely home. The outside of the house looked worn and not taken…